Lazy dinners from around the world?
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Anonymous
| Frozen dumplings and egg rolls. Serve with edamame or microwaved frozen Asian vegetables with a quick sauce of soy sauce and sesame oil. |
Anonymous
Sounds good! Thank you for bringing this back to what other cultures actually do/warm up as a lazy dinner rather than ideas people have from Trader's Joe's (already tons of threads on easy dinner ideas here in US) |
Anonymous
That looks like too much work and too many ingredients to considered a lazy meal. Plus some hard to obtain ingredients as well. Big no from me |
Anonymous
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Lebanon: yogurt pasta.
Crush a couple cloves of garlic with salt. Mix with whole milk yogurt. Add some dried or fresh chopped mint. Still yogurt mixture into freshly cooked hot spaghetti noodles. Add some pasta water to get desired sauce consistency. Sprinkle more mint when serving and a drizzle of olive oil. Lebanese frittata (I don’t know what it is called) beat eggs until very fluffy with a splash of milk and a couple spoonfuls of flour. Add in large handful chopped parsley and shredded zucchini (or squash). Pour into hot pan and cook until set. Add feta on top before serving or Yogurt |
Anonymous
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Rice fried with eggs and frozen mixed veg in soy sauce.
Instant fried rice. |
Anonymous
| Hot rice. Bury a big pat of butter inside. Wait a minute to let melt, then mix the hot rice and butter, drizzle with soy and sesame oil. Even better if you can add a crispy sunny side up egg and a sprinkle of scallion. |
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Combine white rice, red lentils, salt, turmeric in a pot and cover with water, boil until cooked. You can make it as soupy or thick as you want and use whatever ratio of rice/lentils you want. Serve with a lot of lemon or lime juice and chopped cilantro if you have it. I keep Indian lime pickle around to serve with this too.
There are tons of variations depending on what you have around - you can add an onion with the rest of the stuff, dump in some chopped cucumber and tomato at the end when you serve it, add whatever other spices you like, etc., but just the basic recipe is good too! |
Anonymous
I love this thread! Eat there as lunch, then. : ) |
Anonymous
^^ these |
Anonymous
m Because you’re not Indian LOL. |
Anonymous
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Omelette--single egg with salt and pepper. Maybe some parsely. Pre-package salad greens with tomato and some balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper for dressing.
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We often make a big pot of rice in the rice cooker when we're stuck.
Some eat it with butter. Some with marinara. Som with soy and chili crisp. Some with soy and chili crisp and green onions and avocado and kimchi and furikake. You can add hummus and veggies and greek yogurt. Some with leftovers if we have them (chili, beans, meat, roasted veggies topped with parm, whatever). It also works when everyone's going in different directions to make when you are ready. |
Anonymous
| Spaghetti aglio e olio |
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Salmon fillets, coat with olive oil and Turkish spice mix from Penzey’s. Bake in oven for about 15 minutes. Heat up tortillas, cut up the salmon into kebab-sized chunks, put into tortillas and roll up. Add bits of halloumi or feta if you feel like it. Serve with tzatziki or else cut up a cucumber and mix it into some yogurt. Steam broccoli in the microwave and squirt some lemon or lime on it.
The whole dinner takes 20 minutes. If you make extra salmon fillets, you have leftovers for lunch the next day. |
Anonymous
I would respectfully say that I have never seen just yogurt rice, even the fancy one in your recipe, served as a full meal unless people are doing the equivalent of a lazy dinner. It is preceded by a vegetable/rice dish, at least, for a full meal. Doesn’t mean it’s not awesome! |